Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Preface
1 Reforming
the American Dream
2 Pathways
onto Welfare and into College
3 Reformed
Grassroots Activism
4 Survival
through College
5 My
Education Means Everything to Me
6 Hope and
Fear during the Great Recession
7 Graduating
into the Great Recession
8 An American
Dream for All
Afterword
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index
SHEILA M. KATZ is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Houston in Texas. She is a founding board member of the National Center for Student Parent Programs and previously taught at Sonoma State University.
"Sheila Katz's study of single women with children on CalWORKS in
the San Francisco bay area should be read by those who have
stereotyped low-income women in need of assistance, who we often
gratuitously denigrate. Katz's interviews demonstrate these women
are willing to work and—against all odds (and sometimes the
bureaucracy)—seek to advance their fortunes and those of their
children by seeking higher education. It is an important,
empathic, empowering story."
*author of Seeking the American Dream*
"The American Dream is betrayed by policies that
promotes college for some but not all. In this must-read,
Sheila Katz reveals this harsh reality in
painstaking detail and, as a scholar-activist, demands that we
do something about it.”
*Founding Director of the Hope Center for College, Community, and
Justice*
"Katz chronicles the inspiring 'survival narratives' and
grassroots activism of mothers receiving public assistance as they
negotiate the many barriers to achieving the American Dream. They
offer powerful lessons for remaking it from a materialist and
individualist vision to one that nurtures community-building and
well-being for all."
*Author of Grassroots Warriors: Activist Mothering, Community Work,
and the War on Poverty*
"Recommended."
*Choice*
Selected New Books on Higher Education compiled by Ki-Jana
Deadwyler and Ruth Hammond
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/246666?key=137mX8P5kNfptPQAJSOgWMNQT5_Zvkgu5NT2iXPiz_vwC1tQHEYfJH7qLUkMonygb0NxU1VfZFRIQU1qYk85Q1lTS0xaLUtnQkloUUZuZTUzOUdjdDlzYkhmRQ
*Chronicle of Higher Education*
"Well written and well organized and is an approachable read for
undergraduate or graduate students in public policy, sociology,
poverty, and/or women’s studies. Importantly, the policy
recommendations she presents in her book are based on the analysis
of the experiences and lives of the single mothers themselves. The
American Dream can have meaning beyond economic mobility to include
living a fulfilling life through education and time spent with
family and community."
*Gender & Society*
"Katz has illuminated the significance of higher education and the
safety net, both of which require progressive reform least they
collapse under the weight of a greater depression. We could do
worse than learn from student mothers on welfare."
*Cercles*
"This book demonstrates that mothers on welfare in higher education
are pursuing the American Dream, and if policymakers truly want to
get these mothers off public assistance, they need to facilitate
access to higher education, so they can experience upward mobility
into family-supporting jobs."
*Work and Occupations*
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